#nerdsniped — Public Fediverse posts
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@PurpleJillybeans you #NerdSniped me with this, so down the 🐰🕳️ I went… 🤬😩
I was going to suggest that you reach out to the person who wrote the blog post below, but I see in the comments that he’s already been asked to upload the install media to #InternetArchive and has declined
the article might be of interest to you anyway – he lists his install configs & also links to video playlists of installations of lots of (all? 🤔) versions…
…which are on the official VMware YT channel 🤔
ah, OK. it looks like he currently works for #Broadcom, so that’s probably a dead end as far as getting the installers that he has (access to) preserved on IA 😕
How to install all versions of ESX and ESXi in VM?https://williamlam.com/2023/04/how-to-install-all-versions-of-esx-and-esxi-in-vm.html
it’s so frustrating that vendors don’t just make this available as part of preserving their own product history, if nothing else. I sincerely doubt that anyone’s going to be downloading & running ESX 1.5 in production 20+ years later to avoid buying the current version 🤪what I’d really like to see is legislation that mandates that all no-longer-supported software be made available publicly & released into the commons, but given the US is allergic to regulating just about anything I don’t see that happening any time soon 😩
#DigiPres
#VMware #GSX #ESX #ESXi
#VintageSoftware
#RetroComputing
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@Unixbigot ah, well yes, then carry on (🤪) did you do a full write-up somewhere? I took a look at the pix but couldn’t see (or maybe just couldn’t parse) the inbound power side of things
I tend to agree that “more than a POE device will require” is probably a sensible cut-off
hmm… now I’m thinking about what else I could power (or charge) from POE in my switches… 🤔
dammit, #NerdSniped myself! 😆
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Gillar med Linux: Kan byta skrivbordsmiljö och laborera utan att tappa en endaste inställning. Fortfarande inloggad där jag vill i webbläsaren, osv.
Gillar inte: Ingen av miljöerna fungerar som jag vill. Därmed börjar jobbet att hitta vilken som är närmast och sedan börja tweaka.
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@ruthan You could at least have used the #nerdsniped hashtag.
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Ok @futzle - late, but your 12 days challenge finally #nerdsniped me.. Super torn on the best way to abuse #fsharp. The dark horse approach would be to use simple loops but I went traditional, since it's #xmas season and just piped and tacit programmed it till it's undebuggable / unreadable..
https://github.com/daz10000/puzzles/blob/master/XMas/12days.fsx
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It’s coming up to Christmas which means I’m ready to be #nerdsniped with a new project.
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The AI assistant I thought would help me with this JSONPath refactoring task just hallucinated a feature for OpenAPI Overlays that does not exist (citation: I maintain the thing). But now I’m thinking …. maybe we DO need template based variable replacement as a feature?!?? #NerdSniped
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@projectgus OK now I’m curious… what factors continue to battery drain during installation? if you grab a tiny distro like DSL or Puppy does smaller install = less time = less battery drain…? 🤔
dammit, #NerdSniped!
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@Heterokromia Consider me #NerdSniped!
Some quick Ducking around gives around $15 for a whole cake at a bake sale[1]. Since it's a fundraiser, we'll assume the cake-stalleers are footing the bill for supplies/preparation and 100% of the sale price is going towards buying our new bomber.
A B2 apparently ran $2B a pop, while newer B21s have that down to about $700M[2]. We'll average that out into $1.5B to make the math easier.
Putting that together: $1.5B/bomber ÷ $15/cake = 100 000 000 cakes to buy a new bomber from scratch. So get baking!
[1]: https://bakefromscratch.com/price-bake-sale/
[2]: https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/01/the-air-forces-b-21-raider-bomber-nightmare-has-just-begun/ -
@simontatham
(and yes, I grabbed a quick set of unicode emoji/symbol ranges and wrote a #Python script that expanded them all to their individual code-points, iterated over them checking if 0x20 was set and if not-0x20 was also among the code-points; and if so, emitted the unicodedata.name() of both characters for quick evaluation) 🤓 -
- I'm comfortable assuming postcards are rectangular in overall shape, and don't have any holes in them (any that do can be amended manually!)
- There's sometimes little pieces of white-ish fluff on the black card; there would need to be made transparent too; though that's not been too tricky (it just makes the NYC example harder)No worries if you're now regretting replying — but if you're looking to be #nerdsniped then you're welcome 😂 (4/4)
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Nerd sniped by a picture book this morning.
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Back in March of 2018 I compiled a list of 100 of my favorite math questions. There's enough here to keep anyone #nerdsniped for quite a while. Enjoy!
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I got properly #NerdSniped last night thinking about how to create #shapes.
A circle is easy and has a defined #circularity (1) and #AspectRatio (1), but how do you create a set of shapes with given values for these properties?
An ellipse seems like a decent "base" shape to start with but then calculating the perimeter is not as trivial as I thought it would be.
Here is the question that started it if anyone is interested in chiming in:
https://forum.image.sc/t/free-shape-generator-based-on-the-obtained-data/96113?u=dnmason
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Tidying up code for finding all rectangles in a matrix.
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@teunbrand Fresh eyes this morning saw a better way of penalising based on aspect-ratio.
I think this looks better than the previous two!
Now to tidy this spaghetti code :)
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@teunbrand Two diferent rectangularisations of the same matrix.
In the second one i penalise narrow areas - hoping to promote areas at least 2 high (or wide).
Still some thin areas that could be replaced by fatter in top half of first two columns.
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@teunbrand First draft.
Notes:
* There's an interesting choice to be made when multiple candidates match
* Locally optimal/greedy matching probably gives globally sub-optimal final result
* Feels like there should a 2d divide/conquer method.
* Also feels like there should be a 2d growth+simulated annealing that would producing something nice
* quadtrees / binary space partitioning methods?Do you have interesting test cases to try this on?
